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Stephen Gornick

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Quote from: Zeilap on May 28, 2013, 10:16:52 AM

Actually, there are two command line switches -blocknotify and -walletnotify which will call a command when a block is found and when transactions arrive.

Ah, thanks for that!

Here's more info on it:

How to use Walletnotify?
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-to-use-walletnotify-203438

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The 8.2 release candidates include a -walletnotify option that can run a process when a transaction that affects the wallet is seen. It would be fairly simple to write a script for that to call curl or wget to create a HTTP callback.

If your bitcoind is busy (or will be some day), or if the callback server is unreliable, it would be wiser to do it in two stages. The -walletnotify could drop an entry into a database, and a second process could read those entries and execute the calls. The reason is that the -walletnotify process needs to return promptly to avoid runaway processes.

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Actually, there are two command line switches -blocknotify and -walletnotify which will call a command when a block is found and when transactions arrive.

Honestly, I would avoid using listsinceblock, it doesn't behave as you'd expect and it'll come back to bite you.

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Quote from: Vantix on May 28, 2013, 09:26:27 AM

What is the best way to get an HTTP callback when bitcoind client receive an input/output transaction?

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The Bitcoin-Qt/bitcoind client does not have any callback, so the main method employed currently is to poll the client to discover new transactions (using listsinceblock).

BitcoinJ does support this with a PeerEventListener interface:
- http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/8133/153

Also, BitsOfProof possibly supports a callback for new transactions as well.

[Edit: And most payment processors, e.g., BitPay, provide this within their API.]

[Edit2: And you can configure Blockchain.info/wallet to notify you:
- http://blockchain.info/wallet/payment-notifications ]

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What is the best way to get an HTTP callback when bitcoind client receive an input/output transaction?

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